On 13 Oct 2008, at 20:27, Rashkae wrote: > ... > Otherwise, if you really expect distros to take svn, they have to > create > their own number versions, (so you'll have Redhat Mplayer 1.0.2 and > Ubuntu Mplayer 1.0.2, but the source tarball will be different > depending > on they day they copied svn). It also makes patching these versions > different because each distro will have to create patches based on the > day they copied svn, whereas if there were upstream version reference > numbers, a fix for a bug in Mplayer 1.0.2 could be applied to each > distro. Honestly, the distros should get together & do this. The MPlayer maintainers have stated they don't have the resources, the distros seem to rely on MPlayer [1] so here's an opportunity for the distros to contribute to a project. If all the distros got together on a mailing list, agreed to make a release from an SVN snapshot every 6 months or so then I would imagine the MPlayer developers would be quite pleased. If the MPlayer developers are too busy to approach the distros & suggest this then I'm quite happy to volunteer to do this. Stroller. [1] Or am I mistaken? I don't tend to use desktop Linux too much - what alternatives are there?
